St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-02
SUNDAY SILHOUETTES.

OF ST. Paul pastor severing his relations
with his congregation which produced more
sincere or universal regret, than DR.. FORBES
retirement from charge of the old jackson
Street Methodist church. Dr. FORBES has re-
manned with the church as long as the rules
OF the itinerant system of the Methodist
church permit, and consequently he has to
be transferred to new field of pastoral labor
DR.. FORBES is not what is usually denomi-
mated brilliant preacher. His strong points
as a minister are his conservatism, his zeal
and energy, and a vast store of sound prac-
teal sense. He is a man possessing positive
traits of character. yet is never so aggressive
as to wander beyond the legitimate limits of
his calling for the sole purpose of finding
something to make war ON. He is what is
called a useful man in the church, because
he has sound appreciation of what uses a
church has for minister. Dr. FORBES will
never make sensational preacher, but there
is strong likelihood that he will some day
be something better-a bishop
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DR.. FORBES leaves behind him splendid
monument of his three years labor in st.
Paul in the shape of the magnificent Central
Park church which is now approaching COM
pletion. 1t is structure of which both the
congregation and the city have reason to be
proud.
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Rev. DR.. SMITH, who comes mere from
Buffalo to succeed DR.. FORBES and to become
the first pastor Of the Central Park church, is
one OF the most finished pulpit orators in the
world. DR.. SMITH is an exceedingly modest
man and abhors everything OF sensational
tendencies. Otherwise he would be better
known to-day as pulpit orator than Tall
MAGE or MOODY. He avoids notoriety and
shrinks from everything that does not COM
port with the humble dignity of Christian
minister. Yet nobody ever heard DR.. SMITH
preach sermon that did not have a desire
to hear him again.
Reports from all the principal American
cities indicate that greater number of Israel
ties than usual observed Yom Kippur this
year. YoS1 Kippur is the Jews great fast day
of atonement, and was celebrated last
Wednesday. 1t is the most sacred of all the
Jewish religious days. The synagogue SER
vices commenced on Tuesday evening and
continued until 6 o'clock the next evening.
The synagogues were crowded by dense
masses of worshipers who spent the day in
fasting and PRAYER. When the evening
shadows begin to fall on Yom Kippur, men,
women and children, who have been en-
SoSCo al tulOuSu uOly Jay IN earnest
prayer, greet elch other and then return to
their homes with lighter hearts to take I'D the
cares and trials of life for another year.
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81 fear that some of our people place too
much stress ON Yom Kippur,n said a we'll
known Israelite the other day. ssHow is
that2" swell, I'll tell you. They take ad-
vantage of it to crowd a whole years praying
into one day. 1t is like the story you have
heard of the Christian who framed the Lords
Prayer and hung 1T above his bed Every
night on retiring he would point up to it and
say: Lord, them's my sentiments Itsaved
time, you see, and 1 have suspicion that
some of our busy nationality make use of
Yom Kippur in the same way. They pray all
day, but it is the only day in the year that
they do pray"
The bishop of London refused to allow a
young curate by the name of HEADLAM to
officiate in his diocese because the young
man had spoken favorably of ballet dancing.
HEADLAM wrote to the bishop asking what
his reverence knew about the ballet, and why
he was down on the ballet dancers. The
bishop replied that he knew ballet
dancing to be mischievous because
the sight of it was a very grievous tempta-
dancers, they wore their clothes too short.
To which the young priest made answer
maintaining that dancers calling is an
honorable one and that dancing should be
treated as an art, and that tits not the weak but
the dirty-minded Christians who can see evil
in ballet dance. He says that people who
would be offended at a ballet dance are those
whose impure thoughts would plague them
wherever they go, or else he would have
asked his reverend lordship to come to the
opera some evening. And as for the cloth
ing, he thinks it is proper for the work of the
ballet. This spicy correspondence concludes
with reminder from the priest to the bishop
that the premier of the ballet at the AQUA
rum is communicate in the bishops own
church.
DR.. TALMAGE is said to be very close
listed man. He refuses to be interviewed by
reporters because he wants to sell his ideas.
and he generally finds sale for them. His in
come from his pen is equal to that of his sal
airy as preacher. He has an arrangement
with syndicate by which he receives Sc, 900
year for his sermons in advance.
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Speaking Of DR.. TALMAGE's penuriousness,
Truth tells the following story on him: He
wanted enlarged accommodations for his
daughters wedding, and proposed to his
nelghbor to knock an entrance in the separa-
ting wall so that the neighbours parlors, too,
might be used. The neighbor ordered a tenn
porary aisle in the wall, and his parlors were
used en- suite on the festive occasion. Judge
the neighbors surprise when he received q
bill for the job, and DR.. TALMAGE coolly OBJ
served that as he had ordered the work he
had better pay for it.
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